Group
Qarmatians
The Qarmatians ("Those Who Wrote in Small Letters"; also transliterated "[C/Q/K]armathians",) are a Shi'a Ismaili group centered in eastern Arabia, where they attempt to establish a utopian republic in 899 CE.
They are most famed for their revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
Mecca is sacked by the sect’s leader Ṭāhir Sulaymān, outraging the great majority of other Muslims, particularly with their theft of the Black Stone and desecration of the Well of Zamzam with corpses during the Hajj season of 930 CE.The Qarāmaṭah are also known as "the Greengrocers" (al-Baqliyyah) because of their strict vegetarian habits.
Member Cities
- Al-Hasa Ha'il Saudi Arabia Capital
- Al-Kufah An-Najaf Iraq Location
- Al-Manamah Bahrain Location
- Al-Qatif Ash-Sharqiyah Saudi Arabia Location
- Alamut Castle Qazvin Iran Location
- Aleppo > Halab Halab Syria Location
- Antioch > Antakya Hatay Turkey Location
- Baghdad Baghdad Iraq Location
- Basra > Al-Basrah Al-Basrah Iraq Location
- Benghazi > Banghazi Banghazi Libya Location
- Cairo > Al-Qahirah Al-Qahirah Egypt Location
- Damascus > Dimashq Dimashq Syria Location
- Homs > Hims Hims Syria Location
- Jerusalem > Yerushalayim Israel Israel Location
- Kahramanmaras > Germanicia Caesarea Kahramanmaras Turkey Location
- Kairouan > El Kairouan Al-Qayrawan Tunisia Location
- Mahdia Al-Mahdiyah Tunisia Location
- Mecca > Makkah Makkah Saudi Arabia Location
- Nahavand Hamadan Iran Location
- Ramla Israel Israel Location
- Rey Tehran Iran Location
- Samarra' Salah ad Din Iraq Location
- Shiraz Fars Iran Location
- Theodosiopolis > Erzurum Erzurum Turkey Location
- Tripoli > Tarabulus Tarabulus Libya Location
- Tyre > Sur Liban-Sud Lebanon Location
- Wasit Wasit Iraq Location